Entry for Adelostigma senegalense Benth. [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 2,
Names
Adelostigma senegalenseBenth. [family COMPOSITAE], in Hook. Ic. Pl. 12: t. 1144 (1873); F.T.A. 3: 320: Chev. Bot. 364.
Information
An erect annual herb a few inches to 18 in. or more high with soft, thick whitish roots and slightly angled sterna; florets mauve or bluish-purple in thistle-like heads; in damp grassy flats.
Habitat
; in damp grassy flats.
Distribution
Guin.: Fouta Djalon Heudelot 677! Timbo to Ditinn (Sept.) Chev. 18462! 18513! Bouria (Sov.) Chev. 14963! Bilima (Sept.) Chev. 15039! Mali (Sept.) Schnell 7057! Timbi Adam 12846!S. L.: Waterloo (Jan., Aug.) Lane-Poole 408! Melville 8 Hooker 323! Freetown (Oct.) Johnston, 19! Kanya (Oct.) Thomas 2959! Wellington (Nov.) Deighton 866! Wonkifu (Oct.) Jordan 931! No. 2 River, Colony (Nov.) T. S. Jones 374!
